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CASES is a New York City non-profit organization at the forefront of pretrial services, alternative-to-incarceration, and behavioral health treatment programs for people impacted by the criminal legal system. Through a unique partnership with the New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, CASES offers evidence-based pretrial services via the Manhattan Supervised Release Program. The vision of CASES is a city in which a person’s previous criminal legal involvement or behavioral health needs do not limit their opportunity to realize their best life.
CASES is looking for a Junior Analyst to join the Impact division and work in a small, fast-paced unit to understand how the Manhattan Supervised Release Program (SRP) impacts participant criminal legal outcomes, addresses participant needs, and supports increased justice in the criminal legal system. This person will work full-time closely with the Senior Research & Evaluation Analyst and Managing Director to identify key metrics for measuring implementation and impact and report performance to internal and external stakeholders. The ideal candidate is a collaborative, strategic, and mission-driven individual committed to social justice, undoing racism, and alternatives to incarceration. We would love a person who has a personal or family history of involvement in the criminal legal system to join our team.
This is a remote position working when needed in-person to deliver staff training, conduct surveys or focus groups, or participate in any external stakeholder meetings. When working in-person, the Research & Evaluation Analyst will typically be onsite at our Central Harlem or Downtown Brooklyn locations but may occasionally be required to work from other CASES offices.
What you will be doing:
Data Management
- Develop expertise with MSRP programmatic data and criminal legal data.
- Identify appropriate quantitative or qualitative data to support research requests.
- Lead data cleaning and merging of Pretrial data reports to create analytic datasets.
- Collaborate with the Data & Analytics team to ensure data validation and accuracy in data pulled from the CASES database (Salesforce & Exponent Case Management)
- Design survey instruments or focus group guides and coordinate implementation (e.g., scheduling survey dissemination, survey reminders)
- Supervise internal or external teams in data entry projects.
Data Analysis
- Take lead on quantitative analysis (e.g., Stata) and qualitative analysis (e.g., NVivo) for recurring and ad-hoc data requests.
- Present key program outcomes to internal and external stakeholders via drafting initial drafts of interim research briefs, reports, and presentations.
Support Internal & External Stakeholder Engagement
- Lead calls and follow-up correspondence when appropriate.
- Set agendas for future meetings and memorialize next steps.
Support Implementation of New Pretrial Initiatives
- Provide strategic thought partnership to Pretrial Leadership and Mission Advancement to develop and refine performance metrics.
- Support cross-functional engagements to align on the processes and workflow to ensure data infrastructure is in place for measuring program impact.
- Identify lessons learned and best practices for implementation of future programs.
Additional Key Duties
- Conduct literature review, prepare abstracts, and stay abreast of the latest research developments in pretrial supervision, bail, criminal legal system, juvenile justice, and racial and social equity.
- Create and maintain an inventory of pretrial programming literature to inform future research in Excel.
- Support any staff training in-person or virtually.
- Support any upcoming evaluation plans, draft performance metrics, and lead qualitative component of evaluation.
What we are looking for:
- A bachelor's with at least 3 years of professional experience OR Master’s degree with at least 1 years of professional experience in applied research, sociology, statistics, criminal justice, law, public policy, public health, social work, or social science.
- Keen interest or experience with research design in quantitative or qualitative research design and working within government-funded programs.
- Proficient with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, etc.).
- Experience conducting quantitative analysis, ideally using statistical software (e.g., Stata, SPSS, or R)
